Remiel, Demigod and Blythe - before your next post roll me a Significant Notice check (d100, you want to get under your Mind skill). If you succeed you notice Bran take off. Obviously if someone mentions it IC before you post then you'll notice as well.

Still, I would think that you'd have to be a world champion ditz not to notice the person you'd just been talking to jump out of his seat and leg it away.

I think the idea was that when Bran said "Excuse me," he left the shop to make his call outside. At least, that's how I read Kythia's post. So the question would be, did you notice him running away from the door of the shop.

I thought he was going to check the phone at the table. Kythia thought not. Her post was so lovely I didn't want to correct her :)

Checking your phone whilst in a conversation with other people results in a permanent -50% shift to charm. It's inexcusable. Every major world religion forbids it. International human rights agencies refuse to come to the defence of people doing it. If/when the apes rise up against us, scientists suspect their rebellion will be fuelled by hatred of people checking their phone in the middle of a conversation. Prominent medical experts state that Mandela and Gandhi are both dead because they couldn't bear to live in a world where that happened. I could go on...

"Mortified". You're supposed to be "mortified" that Bran has better manners than you in that regard. He's a seventeen year old boy. All he thinks about is touching boobs, smelling weird and whoever the kids are listening to nowadays. Are Abba still hip? But still he has better manners. Hang your head, young man.

Meh, sorry again. Never considered you weren't leaving. Shoulda checked but never even thought of it to check. Man, does it bug me when people do that. If you're talking to me/being talked at by me then I demand full attention.

You'll both notice Remiel take off, automatically (obviously). I'll leave it a couple of days before my post.

Remiel and I were talking, errr, the other night and he was asking for a higher pressure situation for the four of you. Is that a feeling that's shared? I have something broadly written but wasn't sure if Remiel was an outlier?

I'm good either with the current, more cerebral play, or something that would force me to regret Bran having as low a Dodge as he does or for that matter some kind of tricky social maze. I love tricky social mazes.